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DIED. JAMES CARTER, 77, a sharecropper's son who led fellow prisoners at a Mississippi jail in a bluesy work song that four decades later became a Grammy Award--winning hit; in Chicago. One day in 1959 when musical archivist Alan Lomax was at the prison collecting material on a tape recorder, he captured Po' Lazarus, Carter's song about a man who is hunted by a lawman and gunned down. In 2000 the song found a new audience when it appeared on the sound track to the Depression-era film O Brother, Where Art Thou...
DIED. RUBéN GONZÁLEZ, 84, pianist and patriarch of Cuba's music scene who found late-life stardom after his appearance on the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club and in the subsequent documentary; in Havana. González, who was rediscovered by guitarist Ry Cooder, was initially nervous about playing on the album: he suffered from arthritis and didn't have a piano (his was ruined by termites). But he welcomed the attention and happily began performing again. "If I can't take a piano with me to heaven," he said...
When he was designing MoMA QnS in 1999, the American Institute of Architecture awarded him its Young Architects Award...
This Little Life won the Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award with a simple story based around the diary a new mother kept on the days that her premature baby was kept in the neonatal intensive care unit. Director Sarah Gavron uses the visual and textual aspects of the movie to examine the experiences of the mother and the relationship she imagines having with her child, as well as the challenges facing a young, delicate life. Harvard Film Archive, 9 p.m. Tickets $8/$6 students...
Until Harvard-Yale weekend, Wagner had been looking towards a job at Blackstone Private Equity Group. The shock of winning the Rhodes reminded Wagner of “this scene in Zoolander, where the main character thinks he wins the Male Model of the Year Award...I was literally 50 percent sure they called my name...